Ahmed Sahi: The terror group is being defeated on the battlefield in Syria, but so long as its social media propaganda spreads, it will remain a powerful force
Earlier this month, with most territories held by ISIS having been overtaken by the Americans and their allies after a long and drawn out conflict, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the war against ISIS “100 per cent” won, and that ISIS’s reign of terror was now on its last legs.
Regardless of how weak ISIS becomes territorially, or how much it has been damaged physically on the battlefield, the true threat of ISIS lies in the proliferation and staying power of its ideology and ability to indoctrinate youth all over the world. A July 2018 study by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, concluded that while 18,852 came from the Middle East and North Africa, a staggering 13,156 came from Europe, with 753 from the Americas and Australia. This shows the massive influence and global pull of ISIS, not only as a terror group, but as an ideological movement without borders; a force that is able to mobilize tens of thousands of people across the world.
ISIS has used social media with stunning efficacy to proliferate its brand and ideology, even right here in Canada. Martin Couture-Rouleau, Andre Poulin, Aaron Driver, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the infamous Abu Huzaifa , Muhammad Ali. All of these young men were a product of ISIS’s ability to use social media as recruiting tools to radicalize.
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